Most recent example:

the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14645438

  • zecg@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I mainly use lemmy.world through Summit on mobile and can’t reproduce that slowness either that way or the other way I use it, as old.lemmy.world in Firefox.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      You can cap maximum image upload size that lemmy instances will host with pict-rs, and the limit varies by instance, as admins have chosen different settings.

      It looks like currently, lemmy doesn’t tell clients about the limit ahead of time, just fails it:

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5322

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I have repeatedly had this issue and clearing l.w cookies always seems to solve it. I don’t get what is going on.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        It seems like the same speed it is when I clear my cookies, but I’ve also only been here less than a week, so I guess I will have to wait and see.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    No real issues with speed, it seems fine.
    I do have a bit of downtime but nothing unreasonable, maybe 2-3 times a week I won’t be able to access it at all for maybe 10 min max but it’s not often enough to be a real problem and it could be something on my end.

    Being unable to post from behind a VPN is annoying though, I don’t necessarily want my employer to know what I’m doing with my phone on the company Wi-Fi in my downtime.

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I’m on desktop (using old.lemmy.world), live in germany, and images still only take a maximum of half a second to load. That’s perfectly usable to me.

    Do we know where the servers are?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Slowness is a very recent observation for me. Just contributing media now mathematically takes ten times longer.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    I would be very surprised if that’s actually true for everyone. Sounds like an isolated problem for that user. L.W. is hosted in some monstrous HW

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      I’ve seen two websites that record average response times for lemmy, maybe all Threadiverse instances. Kind of wish that there were a wiki somewhere for all the Web-based tools.

      kagis

      This isn’t it:

      https://lemmy-meter.info/d/TTWsBQmIz/lemmy-meter-info?orgId=1&refresh=1m

      This might be one of the two:

      https://www.lemmy-status.org/

      It only seems to show current latency (and it’s not clear that on this site, what the latency is for – just to ping the thing or the lemmy instance responding. Lemmy.world looks in line with others on this one.

      Maybe the one I’m thinking of isn’t online any more. It had a graph and did show lemmy.world latency increases back when a lot of new users were piling in, though that was some time back and may have been resolved.

  • seven_phone@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I would imagine most people find loads times the same as any other site or comments to the effect would be far more numerous.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        Still fast for me in the US, although occasionally it is slow to load images on a phone and I can’t tell if it is just the site or if it is a bad phone connection. I assumed it was the phone connection because it is reliably fast on a PC.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        Maybe user error, then? Could be someone having a misconfigured home network. Or computer/phone with a broken or littered browser? If it’s the location, that’s probably due to some networking/peering/DNS issues, or I’m just not around when it’s evening in the USA and usage and stress on the servers pike. Did someome destroy yet another underseas cable? Or did the current US administration mess with the internet some more?